The Search Process - Mid-Management Search

Phase 1:  Understand the client’s business, vision, work environment and strategies - short and long term.

• Obtain literature on the Company, which defines their goals and future objectives.
• Interview key personnel within the firm.
• Obtain copies of materials on the strategic plan of the functional area that the employee will be hired for.
• Access all literature on compensation, benefits and human resources procedures so as to represent all benefit programs to prospective hires, including time off with pay, perks and compensation programs.
• Obtain information from the client on their competition and where to source prospective hires.

Phase 2:  Review the Search plan with the Client

• Prepare the job description posting.
• Agree to the process, including advertisements, postings, and soliciting candidates from competitive companies.
• Determine reporting frequency on the hiring progress. This includes updates on our expenditures to ensure our effectiveness in keeping your recruitment time and costs to a minimum without jeopardizing the expertise we offer in recruiting the best candidate. 

Phase 3:  Determine Candidates

• Identify targeted candidates using on-line database and networking with personal and professional contacts and prospective hires.
• Review all candidates’ profiles with preliminary telephone screens
• Arrange for the top three or four candidates to meet with the client and the agreed upon interviewees.

Phase 4:  Conducting the Closing Interviews

• Select the finalists.
•  Arrange for final interview with the client.
• Conduct a preliminary reference check.